Gillian M E Alban
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian M E Alban |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian M E |
| FAMILY NAME | Alban |
| SIGNATURE | ALBAN G M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Doğuş University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6226-0014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maternal, Snake-Tailed Foundress Melusine
This article evaluates the fascination of the protean serpent woman or siren Melusine, demonstrating the illustrious heritage of this hybrid foundress of the Lusignan dynasty. Her supernatural achievements are celebrated through history, literature, and culture, despite her betrayal by her weaker husband. As feminine nymph or maternal foundress, Melusine and her achievements serve as exemplary for powerful women. She represents woman castigated a…
The Ferocious Medusa
This review of ten articles, books, and chapters on the mythic Medusa and genital display figures illustrates Medusa’s petrifying and apotropaic gaze and her engulfing vulva, or eye blazoning her matrixial force, as her severed head demonstrates her abiding pro-creative, indomitable force. Through a history of women held under scrutiny while feared by patriarchy, with men projecting their own fear of castration onto them, the Medusa figure emerge…
Medusa as Female Eye or Icon in Atwood, Murdoch, Carter, and Plath
This essay explores the mythic Medusa archetype, used as a symbol of female psychic power in the writings of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch, and Sylvia Plath
Gender-Bending Fantasies inWomen's Writing
Journal Article Gender-Bending Fantasies inWomen’s Writing: Fantastic in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, Nights at the Circus, and Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, The.PowerBook. Mine Ozyurt Kilic Get access Gender-Bending Fantasies in Women’s Writing: Fantastic in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, Nights at the Circus, and Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, The.PowerBook. Mine Ozyurt Kilic.…
Medusa as Female Eye or Icon in Atwood, Murdoch, Carter, and Plath
This essay explores the mythic Medusa archetype, used as a symbol of female psychic power in the writings of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch, and Sylvia Plath
Gender-Bending Fantasies inWomen's Writing
Journal Article Gender-Bending Fantasies inWomen’s Writing: Fantastic in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, Nights at the Circus, and Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, The.PowerBook. Mine Ozyurt Kilic Get access Gender-Bending Fantasies in Women’s Writing: Fantastic in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, Nights at the Circus, and Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, The.PowerBook. Mine Ozyurt Kilic.…
Medusa as Female Eye or Icon in Atwood, Murdoch, Carter, and Plath
This essay explores the mythic Medusa archetype, used as a symbol of female psychic power in the writings of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch, and Sylvia Plath
The Ferocious Medusa
This review of ten articles, books, and chapters on the mythic Medusa and genital display figures illustrates Medusa’s petrifying and apotropaic gaze and her engulfing vulva, or eye blazoning her matrixial force, as her severed head demonstrates her abiding pro-creative, indomitable force. Through a history of women held under scrutiny while feared by patriarchy, with men projecting their own fear of castration onto them, the Medusa figure emerge…
Maternal, Snake-Tailed Foundress Melusine
This article evaluates the fascination of the protean serpent woman or siren Melusine, demonstrating the illustrious heritage of this hybrid foundress of the Lusignan dynasty. Her supernatural achievements are celebrated through history, literature, and culture, despite her betrayal by her weaker husband. As feminine nymph or maternal foundress, Melusine and her achievements serve as exemplary for powerful women. She represents woman castigated a…
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Gaze (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work)